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Saturday, October 22, 2011

10/21 to 10/22- More Visitors Tonight! New (?) or Roy and Dale? Who???

More updates after 2 pm PDT

19:02 Owls arrive at Hideout

22:12 Male owl on perch

22:13 Male flies to tree, later "deet deets" for female and she responds vocally

22:55 Female arrives in tree

23:31 Female leaves

23:44 Male leaves

23:53 Female owl on HP, flies to perch outside box

00:56 Female goes into defensive mode and wards off an owl-house-future-or-past-resident and both go down below perches, out of view

00:57 Original defender returns to her post, but moves to the porch, to continue her claim on the box

Another claim-staking incident occurs immediately after, with the two "discussing property rights" on the porch like two rabid butterflies

02:48 Female enters box

03:05 Female exits box and flies off

03:09 Female returns to the perch adjacent to the box

04:03 Female enters box

04:33 Male arrives on porch, stands and looks directly in doorway (the female fusses, gets defensive, but then settles down and stands on one leg, relaxes).

04:40 Male flies off

04:40 Female exits box and promptly flies off to follow male

04:47 Pearl arrives and immediately enters box and goes straight for the pantry corner "what, no gopher bitz??"

04:48 Pearl exits the box and assumes her position on the edge of the porch

04:57 Pearl flies off (apparently her 10 minute hunting break was over)

Thanks to everyone for the great photo contributions!!!

litlvxn's photostream (DodgerGirl1)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63776925@N02/sets/72157627950726988/

natowllover's photostream (for upper wing marking photo comparison to Dale's earlier photos)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68056695@N06/6265646229/in/photostream/

coach's photostream

http://picasaweb.google.com/115110385377861226679/TheHideoutContinued#5666231200668722466

Tres’s pics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30690443@N06/

mrdrake’s photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdrake001/sets/72157627943795288/

natowlover’s photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68056695@N06

couleedam’s photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coulee/

Buckhollow’s name suggestions for a future clutch (pirate theme)

Blue Beard and Left Foot Lulu, Hook, Line and Lil Stinker or Sinker

Screenshot by Dkowen

Two Owls visit screenshot by Couleedam

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12 barn owl fascinating facts

Discover 12 fascinating facts about the beautiful barn owl.
1 The barn owl was voted Britain’s favourite farmland bird by the public in an RSPB poll in July 2007.
2 Historically, the barn owl was Britain’s most common owl species, but today only one farm in about 75 can boast a barn owl nest.
3 Barn owls screech, not hoot (that’s tawny owls).
4 The barn owl can fly almost silently. This enables it to hear the slightest sounds made by its rodent prey hidden in deep vegetation while it’s flying up to three metres overhead.
5 The barn owl’s heart-shaped face collects sound in the same way as human ears. Its hearing is the most sensitive of any creature tested.
6 Barn owls are non-territorial. Adults live in overlapping home ranges, each one covering approximately 5,000 hectares. That’s a staggering 12,500 acres or 7,100 football pitches!
7 It’s not uncommon for barn owl chicks in the nest to feed each other. This behaviour is incredibly rare in birds.
8 In order to live and breed, a pair of barn owls needs to eat around 5,000 prey items a year. These are mainly field voles, wood mice, and common shrews.
9 Though barn owls are capable of producing three broods of five to seven young each year, most breed only once and produce, on average, only two and a half young. 29 per cent of nests produce no young at all.
10 91 per cent of barn owls post-mortemed were found to contain rat poison. Some owls die as a direct result of consuming rodenticides, but most contain sub-lethal doses. The effects of this remain unknown.
11 In a typical year, around 3,000 juvenile barn owls are killed on Britain’s motorways, dual carriageways and other trunk roads. That’s about a third of all the young that fledge.
12 Everyone can help barn owls. Leave a patch of rough grassland to grow wild thus creating habitat for voles, erect a super-safe deep nest box, volunteer for your local barn owl group, switch to non-toxic rodent control